Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
As colleges and universities across the western Carolinas start the cleanup from Hurricane Helene, administrators say a full recovery will take not just days or weeks, but months and possibly even years.
Still, they remain confident that their institutions will be able to provide the required number of instruction hours, meet accreditation standards, and complete the term.
On the surface, the scene on Columbia University’s campus appears normal after a spring semester rocked by encampments and police crackdowns. Students are eating lunch on green lawns and tapping a volleyball back and forth under sunny skies.
But, “like a horror film,” says Reinhold Martin, an architectural historian at Columbia, “there’s something wrong with this picture."
When one pictures a college campus, images of young adults fresh out of high school whose primary job is academics may come to mind. In reality, many of those undergraduate students are in their mid-20s or older. They're also parents and less likely to complete their degree compared to their peers without dependent children.
New research is turning a spotlight on how some colleges are looking at ways to adapt their campus environments to better support student parents and boost degree completion.
If 2023 was the year in which professors began adding artificial intelligence-use policies to their syllabi and AI-detection tools to their practices, this academic year may become known for campuswide advances.
In short, colleges and universities are beginning to reimagine learning in the world of artificial intelligence in new and big ways.
From self-driving cars to electric vehicles, automobiles are becoming more technologically advanced, and there's a shortage of workers who have the diverse skills needed to keep them on the road.
The goal of Weber State University in Layton, Utah, is to train the next generation of the automotive industry, including many individuals who may have previously believed they had no place there.
Efforts by community colleges to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, launched or ramped up in many cases after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, have run into roadblocks in some states—while being strongly encouraged in others—due to newly passed legislation.
In response, several community college leaders are forming a networking group called Education for All to share ideas about how to navigate these widely varying environments, especially those clamping down on DEI.
